Mission, Vision & Goals

The roundtable mission is to promote sustainability and resilience of resources critical to ecosystems and communities that depend upon them.

Increasing the level of ecosystem and community sustainability and resilience requires an understanding of the science underlying ecosystem functioning and addressing challenges in policies, programs, and practices. This requires changing our behaviors as individuals, communities, businesses, organizations, states, and nations. Recognizing challenges at local and regional levels can help us opportunities to find better solutions at larger scales and can create pathways for meaningful action. Collaborative research and sharing common solutions can optimize resources and accelerate positive change.

The roundtable works to achieve this through engaging knowledgeable people and partners from the business, government, academia, and nonprofit sectors to improve the understanding,

management, utilization, conservation, preservation, and restoration of ecosystems and the services they provide to communities.

The roundtable envisions a future in which individuals, communities, and nations keep resources and ecosystems sustainable and resilient for the benefit of people and nature.

• Share the lessons science and best practices with individuals, groups, and organizations solving their sustainability and resilience challenges.
• Provide an open forum for the exchange of information, ideas, stories, and lessons about ecosystem and community sustainability and resilience.
• Facilitate interdisciplinary, inter-community collaboration on information, science, policy, planning, and management ideas important to resilience and sustainability.
• Develop policy guidance and best practices for community and ecosystem advocates, stakeholders, and decision-makers in government and other sectors.
• Keep a record of proceedings of roundtable proceedings and activities for use by participants.